As technology evolves, threats and vulnerabilities evolve, too. To not be caught on the back foot, firms are using simulations to find vulnerabilities and build or bolster their cybersecurity systems, as well as cultivating firmwide culture change to train employees.

Last fall, MacKenzie Dunham was a law student working at a personal injury firm in Houston when one of the firm’s two partners called the office to say their car had been broken into and he would not make it in.

Robert Litt has confronted cybersecurity and encryption issues for two presidential administrations. With Russian interference in the 2016 election as a backdrop, Litt, an ABA Journal Legal Rebels Trailblazer, says the U.S. has been facing online threats essentially since the internet's creation.

Jason Tashea and Victor Li

If personal and confidential data are the currency in today’s electronic world, then law firms are sitting on a gold mine.

In May, a cyberattack by a ransomware “cryptoworm” known as WannaCry infected 300,000-plus computers worldwide by encrypting their contents and demanding that users pay a ransom if they ever wanted to see their data again. In response, DLA Piper posted a blog entry subtitled “9 Things You Should Know…

John P. Carlin, Robert S. Litt, Hayley R. Curry and R. Taj Moore

Corporate litigator Jane Doe sat down at her desk Monday morning and logged on to her computer. She opened an email appearing to be from a client that read: “Hi. Could you please take a look at this document? It’s urgent.” Doe clicked on the attachment. Two weeks later, a…